The Dumb Money System That Forces Us to Buy the Top

It’s the system doing exactly what it was designed to to make us deploy capital into risk assets right as the economy and labor market starts to crack.

This is the market doing what it always does in late-cycle easing:
- policy compresses cash returns → flows go risk-on
labor weakens → recession probability rises
- but earnings (concentrated in tech) stay hot → the index keeps levitating
- valuation becomes a decade headwind, not a one-year timing tool
- the endgame looks more like 1999 than 2008 — until something breaks
- $20B just flowed into the Vanguard S&P 500 ETF. $125B has gone into the index this year.

At the same time: 1.2M job cuts, unemployment up to 4.6%, and the “recessionary” Sahm-rule-style alarm is starting to blare.

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FULL Article: https://threadingontheedge.substack.com/p/the-dumb-money-system-that-forces